By Cindy Luis

Thanks to Stanley Ching for his notes and picture link. For those who couldn’t make it to the team’s banquet this year, some videos are up on the booster club website (http://www.orgsites.com/hi/wahinevbbc/_pgg4.php3), hopefully with more to come, as well as photos.  Jennifer Carey,  whose assistant coaching position was in question when head coach Bond Shymansky was let go by Georgia Tech following the season: has landed a position as director of operations with the University of California  Believe Cal is on the schedule for the Wahine this fall (CL) 

By Cindy Luis

Hawaii leading CSUN 25-23 in Set 1. Walker 10-1-17, has 10 of UH’s 15 kills. Timeout Matadors. Dyer puts down 2 of his 4 kills on D sets, UH wins Set 1 30-26. Walter 10-1-19, UH 17-4-38. Vance 3-0-11, this after 32 kills last night. They’re a little more diversified. Lots of serving errors, CSUN with 6, UH with 7.  

By Cindy Luis

she did not break both arms, she did fracture her right wrist and elbow. Never got a confirmation as to how. But she’s not in a cast currently. 

By Cindy Luis

Tuaniga will sit out Saturday’s match as well. Think the issue has been resolved. I know that he was struggling in school last fall, which is why he didn’t make the trip to Canada. Perhaps I misunderstood him when he said he hoped to be back for this match. Or maybe he didn’t know it would be a two-match thing.   Saw Aneli on the way to the arena. She is still on crutches but says the surgery from knee (left) surgery went well. Hopes to be available for the spring matches with Washington State March 14 and Nebraska March 19.  

By Cindy Luis

BYU def. Hawaii, 30-23, 30-28, 30-28Pepperdine def. Pacific, 30-25, 30-25, 30-28CSU Northridge def. UC Santa Barbara, 30-21, 30-25, 30-27UCLA def. UC San Diego, 30-26, 35-33, 30-22USC def. Stanford, 30-22, 31-29, 30-23UC Irvine def. Long Beach State, 34-32, 32-30, 28-30, 30-27

By Cindy Luis

University of Hawai‘i Rainbow Wahine outside hitter Jamie Houston earned Under Armour Volleyball magazine first-team All America honors, released in the February 2009 edition of Volleyball magazine. Houston, a second team AVCA All-American, was a two-time WAC Player of the Year. She led the team with a 4.05 kill per set average, adding 1.73 digs and 0.75 blocks per set. Houston also ended her career second in the career record books with 2,061 kills. Freshman Kanani Danielson was named to the All-America honorable mention list. Joining Houston on the All-America team is Honolulu native Tamari Miyashiro of Washington, who was also named the Defensive Player of the Year, Nicole Fawcett, Christa Harmotto, Megan Hodge and Alisha Glass of national champion Penn State, Foluke Akinradewo, Cynthia Barboza and Alix Klineman of Stanford, Ashley Engle and Destinee Hooker of Texas, Jordan Larson of Nebraska and Hana Cutura of California. Fawcett and Akinradewo shared National Player of the Year honors with Nebraska’s John Cook earning National Coach of the Year. Florida’s Kelly Murphy was named the National Freshman of the Year. 

By Cindy Luis

Pretty sloppy to start. CSUN has forged ahead 15-11. The question at the moment: Where is Gus Tuaniga? He was supposed to start but is nowhere to be seen.Tuaniga on the bench in street clothes. Will have to find out what’s up. CSUN wins Set 1 30-21  Warriors hanging in there. CSUN serving errors hurting them. UH wins Set 2 30-28.  Ace by Tanner Nua finishes out Set 3 for CSUN with the Matadors winning it 30-22. Vance with 22 kills for CSUN Brennon Dyer has 9 for UH and Walker 8.  Impressively Hawaii has tied it with a 30-23 win in Set 4. 28 kills for Vance, 14 for Dyer.  

By Dave Reardon

Success hasn’t spoiled Davone Bess. The former UH great is in town after a great rookie season with the Miami Dolphins. But he’s taking nothing for granted, and promises to work even harder to continue to improve.Bess’ wife, Rachel, recently gave birth to the couple’s first child, 2-month old Kyra.”It was a wild year, a great year,” said Bess, who will be here in Hawaii for the next couple of weeks. He will appear Tuesday at The Willows for the Evening With Colt Brennan charity fundraiser.

By Dave Reardon

Next week’s “An Evening With Colt Brennan” is turning into an evening with his receivers, too.Now we hear Ryan Grice-Mullins will be at the Willows for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society fundraiser Tuesday, along with fellow former UH slotback Davone Bess. Tickets are still available for the Feb. 3 event. Call Kyle Nakayama at 952-9200. 

By Cindy Luis

Had asked Clay for comments regarding his Circle of Honor induction. He was traveling the past few days and just got my email. thought it worthy of passing it along: I am really excited and proud to be honored this way. And especially to honored at home It  makes me feel great inside! I hope I am representing and doing Hawaii proud Thanks go to everyone for still thinking about me.  As of now I am still in Russia playing for the same team for the past 3 years (Renit) in the city of Kazan. Things are going good. Can’t complain! The team has treated Lloy (setter Ball) and me really well. If only we had a league back in the states, but what you gonna do? I plan on return to hawaii after the season.